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US 11,304,666 B2Granted
Creation of a digital twin for medical examinations
AssigneeSiemens Healthcare GmbH
InventorsMathias Hoernig, Ralf Nanke
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Abstract
A method for creating a virtual patient model includes acquiring image data of the patient from a number of directions and in a number of positions of the patient. A virtual patient is created based upon the acquired image data. The virtual patient is adjusted to a posture of the patient during a planned examination with a medical engineering examination apparatus. A patient model creation apparatus is also described. Moreover, a medical engineering examination system is described.
Claims33
A method comprising:
- acquiring image data of a patient from a number of directions;
- creating a virtual patient based on the image data, the virtual patient being adjustable, via a medical engineering examination apparatus, to a posture of the patient during a planned examination of the patient, and the virtual patient being adjustable based on an examination protocol for the planned examination, wherein
- the medical engineering examination apparatus is a medical imaging apparatus, and
- the planned examination of the patient is a medical imaging of the patient using the medical imaging apparatus;
- and
- automatically setting, for the medical imaging of the patient, at least one image acquisition parameter of the medical imaging device apparatus, for the planned examination, based on parameter data of the virtual patient.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a medical imaging modality to perform a planned medical imaging examination of a patient according to at least one image acquisition parameter;
- an acquisition unit to acquire image data of the patient from a number of directions and in a number of positions of the patient;
- a model creation unit to create a virtual patient based on the image data;
- and
- an adaptation unit to adjust the virtual patient to a posture of the patient during the planned medical imaging examination of the patient via the medical imaging modality, the virtual patient being adjustable based on an examination protocol for the planned medical imaging examination, wherein
- the at least one image acquisition parameter is automatically set based on parameter data of the virtual patient.
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A method comprising:
- acquiring image data of a patient from a number of directions;
- creating a virtual patient based on the image data, the virtual patient being adjustable based on an examination protocol for a planned examination of the patient using a medical engineering examination apparatus, wherein
- the medical engineering examination apparatus is a medical imaging apparatus, and
- the planned examination of the patient is a medical imaging of the patient using the medical imaging apparatus;
- adjusting the virtual patient to a posture of the patient during the planned examination, using the medical engineering examination apparatus;
- and
- automatically setting, for the medical imaging of the patient, at least one image acquisition parameter of the medical imaging apparatus, for the planned examination, based on parameter data of the virtual patient.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a medical imaging modality to perform a planned medical imaging examination of a patient according to at least one image acquisition parameter;
- at least one camera to acquire image data of the patient from a number of directions and in a number of positions of the patient;
- and
- at least one processor to
- create a virtual patient based on the image data,
- adjust the virtual patient to a posture of the patient during the planned medical imaging examination of the patient, the virtual patient being adjustable based on an examination protocol for the planned medical imaging examination, and
- automatically set the at least one image acquisition parameter based on parameter data of the virtual patient.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.